Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Tioga Center Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Squad

Tioga Center, NY · Tioga County. Tioga Center Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Squad is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 20 total personnel. The department also provides EMS services. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

20
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Tioga Center Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Squad pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the New York average.

21st pct.
national personnel size
-52%
vs. New York average
1
station

National percentile ranks this department's personnel headcount against every listable U.S. department with reported staffing; the state comparison uses the same personnel figure against its own state's average. Both feed the verdict sentence and the chips above.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
38/100
Tioga Center Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Squad

A staffing, equipment, EMS-integration, and federal-grant-funding composite benchmarked against every other USFA-registered department nationally, not a safety rating, response-time measure, or comparison of fire risk. Dimensions with no data on file are excluded and their weight redistributed, never counted as zero.

Staffing capacity D
20 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
20 personnel · 1 station

Tioga Center Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Squad is a Volunteer department serving Tioga Center, NY (Tioga County), with 1 station and 20 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #17,727 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #17,727 of 22,440
  • NY personnel rank #1,309 of 1,368
  • 5.00 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 16 other listed departments in Tioga County

Tioga Center Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Squad vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

20 Top 79% higher than 21% of 22,440 departments

Listable U.S. fire departments, banded by total personnel

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Source HIFLD fire-station registry · 2026-09-06

Dispatch plate

Sheet 54011 · Tioga Center Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Squad, NY 20 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 20
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #17,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mount Olivet
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Mount Olivet Fire Department, MS (+ 0 personnel)

Volunteer HIFLD roster counts, station rows, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer, and FEMA AFG/SAFER book for this FDID, not a readiness rating.

Personnel neighbourhood

Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every NY department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Tioga Center, NY
FDID
54011

Staffing vs the New York average

How Tioga Center Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Squad's personnel count compares to the typical department in New York. In-state it ranks #1,309 of 1,368 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #17,727 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 52% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
150
NY departments
2,253

County roster fringe

Tioga Center Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Squad is 2.2% of Tioga County roster mass

The county lists 19 departments totaling 890 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 47% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.00 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 20 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Mount Olivet Fire Department, MS (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

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Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NY department.